Bai
intj, name, noun
intj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
"One thing about the bais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs. […] venturing into the bai, but […] plunging into the bai because […]"
- 2 A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.
- 3 An ethnic group of China. plural, plural-only
- 4 the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan wordnet
Intj
- 1 Eye dialect spelling of bye. Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 An island off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia
- 3 The language of the Bai ethnic group.
Example
More examples"One thing about the bais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs. […] venturing into the bai, but […] plunging into the bai because […]"
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.
Etymology 2
From Chinese 白 (Bái). Doublet of Bach (Vietnamese surname).
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Malay Bai.